12 Giant Men will be guests of Latvia at 19:30 tonight as part of the 2023 FIBA World Cup European qualifications. The match to be played in Arena Riga will be broadcast live on NTV.
A National Men’s Basketball National Team will be visiting Latvia at 19:30 this evening as part of the 2023 FIBA World Cup European qualifications. The match to be played in Arena Riga will be broadcast live on NTV screens.
The 12 Giant Men were in the same group as Greece, Belarus and Great Britain in the first round group of their qualifiers. After Belarus was disqualified after FIBA’s decision due to the Ukraine-Russia war, the three teams were promoted directly to the second round groups. In the system in which the matches played in the first round groups are moved to the upper round groups, the Crescent-Stars are in the third place in the group that includes Latvia, Belgium and Serbia from the opposite group, after Greece and Latvia, which had three wins with two wins and two losses each. The top four teams in the second round groups will qualify for the 2023 World Cup.
Standings in the group before the match:
The national team, which will host Serbia on Sunday (August 28) after the Latvia game, will go to Tbilisi for the 2022 European Basketball Championship, which will start on September 1, after the qualifying matches.
The schedule of the 2022 European Basketball Championship matches, where 12 Giant Men will take place in Tbilisi, is as follows:
September 1 at 17:15 Turkey – Montenegro
3 September at 17:15 Bulgaria – Turkey
4 September at 20:00 Turkey – Georgia
6 September at 14:30 Belgium – Turkey
September 7 at 14:30 Turkey – Spain
A National Men’s Basketball Team will play the remaining four matches in the World Cup qualifiers in November and February.
Here is the match schedule of the 12 Giant Men for the 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifiers:
August 25: Latvia-Turkey
August 28: Turkey Serbia
November 10: Turkey-Belgium
13 November: Serbia-Turkey
February 24, 2023: Turkey-Latvia
February 27, 2023: Belgium-Turkey
Written by: Yahya Kemal Dogan
Editor: Doga Productdül
